South Dakota Codified Laws
Chapter 36 - Predatory Animal And Reptile Control
Section 40-36-18 - Investigation of animal skin by conservation officer--Recommendation as to acceptance for bounty.

40-36-18. Investigation of animal skin by conservation officer--Recommendation as to acceptance for bounty.
If the auditor has any doubt or question as to any skin delivered pursuant to §40-36-17 he shall refer such skin to the conservation officer for investigation. After the conservation officer's investigation, he shall return the skin to the auditor with the recommendation that such skin be accepted or rejected.

Source: SDC 1939, §25.1002 as enacted by SL 1961, ch 123, §2; SL 1963, ch 141, §2; revised pursuant to SL 1971, ch 231, §2.

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South Dakota Codified Laws

Title 40 - Animals and Livestock

Chapter 36 - Predatory Animal And Reptile Control

Section 40-36-1 - Department of Game, Fish and Parks to cooperate with federal agency in control of injurious wild animals.

Section 40-36-3 - Department of Agriculture and Natural Resources cooperative agreements for control of injurious wild animals.

Section 40-36-3.1 - Prairie dog control program on private lands.

Section 40-36-9 - Programs and rules for control of injurious animals--Payment of expenses.

Section 40-36-10 - Animal damage control fund created.

Section 40-36-11 - County appropriations to animal damage control fund--Certification of amounts--State matching funds.

Section 40-36-13 - Semiannual county payments to fund.

Section 40-36-14 - Expenditures from fund.

Section 40-36-15 - Bounties payable for coyotes--Restrictions on payments--Fraud--Penalty.

Section 40-36-16 - Hunting license not required of landowner to receive bounty.

Section 40-36-17 - Skin delivered to county auditor to claim bounty--Examination by auditor.

Section 40-36-18 - Investigation of animal skin by conservation officer--Recommendation as to acceptance for bounty.

Section 40-36-19 - Marking of skin accepted for bounty.

Section 40-36-20 - Certificate on rejection of skin for bounty--Action for bounty--Use of skin as evidence--Costs.

Section 40-36-21 - Affidavit filed when bounty claim approved by county auditor.

Section 40-36-23 - Approval or disapproval of bounty claim by Game, Fish and Parks Commission.

Section 40-36-24 - Final approval and payment of bounty claim.

Section 40-36-25 - Appeal from disapproval of bounty claim.

Section 40-36-26 - Bounty claim as misdemeanor when animal died from natural causes--Animal killed by federal or other agency.

Section 40-36-27 - Killing of predatory animal without hunting license--Falsification of bounty claim--Violation as misdemeanor.

Section 40-36-28 - Importation or breeding of animals to claim bounty as petty offense.

Section 40-36-29 - False bounty claim as perjury.

Section 40-36-32 - Audit of predatory animal control fund.

Section 40-36-33 - Predatory animal control fund carried over from year to year.

Section 40-36-34 - Special tax on sheep in eastern counties levied on petition of sheep owners--Predatory animals defined.

Section 40-36-35 - Payment of bounties and employment of hunters from proceeds of special tax on sheep.

Section 40-36-36 - Rate of bounties payable from special tax on sheep--Rules and regulations.

Section 40-36-37 - County bounty payable on coyotes.

Section 40-36-38 - Educational campaign for rodent and reptile control.

Section 40-36-39 - Employment of personnel for extermination of rodents and reptiles--Purchase and distribution of equipment and supplies--Bounties prohibited.

Section 40-36-39.1 - South Dakota rodent control fund.

Section 40-36-39.2 - Validation of rodent control agreements.

Section 40-36-40 - Disposition of carcasses of rodents and reptiles taken--Use of proceeds of sale.

Section 40-36-41 - Records of rodent and reptile work.

Section 40-36-46 - Policy advisory committee for animal damage control.